Species Chaerephon jobensis (Miller, 1902)

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Generic Combinations

• Chaerephon jobensis (Miller, 1902).
• Tadarida jobensis (Miller, 1902).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, predator, tree hole.

Extra Ecological Information

Roosts also in caves and buildings.

Notes

Details for nominate subspecies, not found in Australia:

Chaerephon jobensis jobensis (Miller, 1902)

Nyctinomus jobensis Miller, G.S. 1902. Two new tropical old world bats. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 15: 245–246 [246].
Type data:Holotype USNM 18545 & 38035 ♀ skin (wet, 18545) & skull (38035), Ansus, Japen Pulau (as Jobie Island), Irian Jaya, Indonesia.

General References

Anon. 1929. A bat colony. The Australian Zoologist 6: 106-107

Begg, R.J. & McKean, J.L. 1982. Cave dwelling in the molossid bat Tadarida jobensis colonicus. Northern Territory Naturalist 5: 12

De Lestang, A. 1929. A bat colony (Chaerophon plicatus colonicus) in North Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 6: 106-107

Freeman, P.W. 1981. A multivariate study of the family Molossidae (Mammalia, Chiroptera): morphology, ecology, evolution. Fieldiana Zoology ns 7: i-viii 1-173

Friend, G.R. & Braithwaite, R.W. 1986. Bat fauna of Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory. Australian Mammalogy 9: 43-52

Hill, J.E. 1961. Indo-Australian bats of the genus Tadarida. Mammalia 25: 29-56

Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. & Koeppl, J.W. (eds) 1982. Mammal Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Lawrence, Kansas : Allen Press & Assoc. Syst. Coll. ix 694 pp.

Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48

Richards, G.C. 1995. Northern Freetail-bat Chaerephon jobensis. pp. 479-480 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Reed New Holland : Angus & Robertson 756 pp.

Vestjens, W.J.M. & Hall, L.S. 1977. Stomach contents of forty-two species of bats from the Australasian region. Australian Wildlife Research 4: 25-35

Waithman, J. 1979. A report on a collection of mammals from southwest Papua, 1972–1973. The Australian Zoologist 20: 313-326

Ziegler, A.C. 1982. An ecological check-list of New Guinea Recent mammals. pp. 863-894 in Gressitt, J.L. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea. The Hague & London : W. Junk Vol. 2(4) vii 983 pp.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Greater Northern Freetail-bat, Northern Mastiff Bat)

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